A year ago this month, Pope Francis gave a long interview to Antonio Spadaro, the editor in chief of an Italian Jesuit journal called La Civiltà Cattolica. Francis was just a few months into his ...

An ethnic-cleansing campaign by the government threatens to empty South Sudan ...

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From Living on Paper, a collection of Iris Murdoch’s letters published next month by Princeton University Press and Chatto & Windus. Murdoch (1919–99) was the author of numerous novels, including The… ...

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Only as a story will this make sense. One morning in August, craving company, I walked around the corner from my apartment in Livingston, Montana, and sat down at the… ...

From West of Eden: An American Place, an oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by Jean Stein, published this month by Random House. Stein is the author of Edie:… ...

Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1, by Karl Marx. Edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter. Translated by Paul Reitter. Princeton University Press. 944 pages. $39.95. Our doomed thought ...

The corpse flower, when it opens every few years, attracts admirers by the tens of thousands. It is only in bloom for two or three days, and for those days it stinks. People stand in line to savor its ...

We’d been in Maine six months, but for the first three our kids had continued to Zoom with their Brooklyn school and then summer had come. And then it was the third week of September, and I was still ...

It’s like this, says Lili. I left and I came back. I went and I returned. I tried. But I’m not made for success. Others might have succeeded. Not me. I’m not made for glory. I’m made for defeat. I’ll ...

From Speaking in Tongues, by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos, which will be published this month by Liveright. j. m. coetzee: I was writing something yesterday, concentrating intensely on getting ...